David, I surmise that stations aren't interested in doing that unless a gun were held to their heads.
SCA is different - it doesn't directly compete with the principal station's programming. Look at the situation up in Buffalo - Entercom is the dominant player, and parks ESPN on its 50 kW WWKB transmitter at the same time it operates its own locally-originated sports format on 5 kW WGR. You'd think the squandered opportunity to put a meaningful format on WWKB would annoy shareholders, but Entercom is loath to sell the 1520 WWKB frequency as it would introduce a new competitor or strengthen an existing one. As our colleague Mr. Figliozzi would point out, this points out a significant flaw in our commercial radio licensing model - the fact that spectrum space is a publicly owned asset, and should be managed to maximize the public good, is lost on the FCC and the rest of our government RC On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 11:17 AM, David Goren <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there a prohibition for stations to lease their HD-2 and HD-3 in a manner > similar to FM subcarrier stations? Otherwise, that could be a model. _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
